The Britalus Brayton cycle engine
Abstract
The Britalus engine's Brayton cycle employs piston displacement compression and expansion for high efficiency and, unlike conventional gas turbines, can be scaled to small sizes in virtue of compression and expansion adiabatic efficiencies that are intrinsically higher irrespective of scale. After discussing engine design parameters as they relate to part load performance requirements, a parametrical treatment is presented for the expander inlet temperature, which functions as a power level index, to determine the limitations imposed by heat transfer features.
- Publication:
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29th International Gas Turbine Conference and Exhibit
- Pub Date:
- June 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984gatu.confQ....D
- Keywords:
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- Adiabatic Conditions;
- Brayton Cycle;
- Engine Design;
- Gas Turbine Engines;
- Heat Transfer;
- Thermodynamic Efficiency;
- Mass Flow Rate;
- Specific Heat;
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics